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60 free Brigitte Bardot trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Brigitte Bardot trivia quiz covers the actress who became France's most famous export and then walked away from it all at 39. The easy questions handle her birthplace, the initials the world knew her by, the film that made her a star and the Riviera town she never left. From there it moves into the work itself: the Godard film with Fritz Lang playing himself, the Clouzot courtroom drama that won her an Italian award, the Louis Malle comedy in which she accidentally invents striptease, and her two shots at Hollywood. The harder end is for cinephiles and Francophiles: Roger Vadim's real surname, the price she paid for La Madrague, the husband who had a Gainsbourg recording shelved, the Beatle who met her on LSD, the number of Warhol portraits, and how she raised the money to start her animal foundation. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries on Bardot, her films, her songs and her foundation, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, our French cinema, Jean-Luc Godard and 1960s quizzes are natural next stops.
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Q 01Brigitte Bardot was born in 1934 in which city?
Paris
She grew up in a nine-bedroom apartment in the 16th arrondissement, the daughter of an engineer who owned several factories.
Q 02By what two-letter nickname was Bardot known throughout her career?
B.B.
In French the initials sound like 'bébé', and she used them as the title of her memoir, Initiales B.B.
Q 03What art form did Bardot train in as a child, entering the national conservatoire in 1949?
Ballet
She studied for three years under the Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev before modelling and film took over.
Q 04At 15, Bardot appeared on the cover of which magazine, which led directly to her first film offer?
Elle
The March 1950 cover caught the eye of director Marc Allégret; she had been hired as a junior model by the magazine's director the year before.
Q 05How many films did Bardot appear in over her career?
47
She also recorded more than 60 songs and performed in several musicals before walking away from show business in 1973.
Q 06Bardot's second film, Manina (1952), is credited with popularising which garment?
The bikini
The English-language title spelt it out: Manina, the Girl in the Bikini.
Q 07Bardot married director Roger Vadim in December 1952 at what age?
18
The wedding took place at Notre-Dame-de-Grâce de Passy; the couple separated four years later after she fell for a co-star.
Q 08What was Roger Vadim's real surname?
Plemiannikov
His father was a White Russian officer and pianist who became a naturalised French citizen.
Q 09In which year was And God Created Woman, the film that made Bardot the 'sex kitten', released?
1956
Peter Bogdanovich later credited it with breaking French cinema out of American art houses and into the mainstream.
Q 10And God Created Woman is set in which Riviera town, later Bardot's home for decades?
Saint-Tropez
Her character Juliette is an 18-year-old orphan, and her habit of going barefoot in the town's streets was written into the part.
Q 11Which Danish model became Vadim's second wife after his divorce from Bardot?
Annette Stroyberg
She appeared in his vampire film Blood and Roses; Fonda came later, and Deneuve had a relationship with him but never married him.
Q 12Bardot's affair with which And God Created Woman co-star ended her first marriage?
Jean-Louis Trintignant
He was married to actress Stéphane Audran at the time; the pair lived together for about two years but never wed.
Q 13Which 1959 World War II comedy became the fourth-biggest film of the year in France for Bardot?
Babette Goes to War
Q 21Bardot starred opposite which James Bond actor in the 1968 Western Shalako?
Sean Connery
The same year she had a small role in the all-star anthology Spirits of the Dead alongside Alain Delon.
Q 22Which French philosopher's 1959 essay 'The Lolita Syndrome' called Bardot a 'locomotive of women's history'?
Simone de Beauvoir
The essay drew on existentialist themes to declare her the most liberated woman in France.
Q 23Charles de Gaulle famously compared Bardot's importance as a French export to which company's products?
Renault cars
She backed de Gaulle in the 1960s and later became the first named model for the republican bust of Marianne.
The same year she also headlined The Female for veteran director Julien Duvivier.
Q 14Bardot won a David di Donatello award for The Truth (1960), a courtroom drama by which director?
Henri-Georges Clouzot
She played Dominique Marceau, on trial for shooting her lover; the film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Q 15Godard's Contempt (1963), starring Bardot, was based on a novel by which Italian writer?
Alberto Moravia
Il disprezzo follows a screenwriter whose marriage collapses during a troubled film of Homer's Odyssey.
Q 16Which legendary director appears as himself in Contempt, filming an adaptation of the Odyssey?
Fritz Lang
Jack Palance plays the vulgar American producer who whisks Bardot's character off to Capri in his sports car.
Q 17What is the name of Bardot's character in Contempt?
Camille Javal
She is married to the playwright Paul, and abruptly announces she no longer loves him during the first day of the project.
Q 18In Viva Maria! (1965) Bardot and Jeanne Moreau play two revolutionaries who accidentally invent what?
Striptease
It happens when a skirt rips on stage; the director described the film as 'a sort of burlesque boxing match — sexpot v. seductress'.
Q 19Who directed Viva Maria!, which earned Bardot a BAFTA nomination?
Louis Malle
He got the film financed only on the condition that Jeanne Moreau committed to it.
Q 20Which American actor starred as the professor in Bardot's first Hollywood film, Dear Brigitte (1965)?
James Stewart
Her second attempt at Hollywood, a 1968 Western, was another box-office disappointment.
Q 24In 1969 Bardot became the first celebrity to lend her features to which national symbol?
The bust of Marianne
Until then the busts in town halls had anonymous faces; Catherine Deneuve and Laetitia Casta later followed her.
Q 25Bardot bought her Riviera home La Madrague in 1958 for how many francs?
24 million
She lived there until her death and gave the name to one of her best-known songs.
Q 26Bardot's 1959 wedding made which fabric fashionable after she wore a pink checked dress?
Gingham
The dress was by Jacques Esterel; she also launched the beehive-like 'choucroute' hairstyle.
Q 27Bardot's third husband, married in 1966, was a millionaire from which country?
Germany
Gunter Sachs commissioned an Andy Warhol portrait of her in 1974, which sold at Sotheby's in 2012.
Q 28How many times was Bardot married?
4
Her final marriage, to Bernard d'Ormale in 1992, lasted longer than the other three combined.
Q 29Bardot's only child, Nicolas, was born in January 1960 from her marriage to which actor?
Jacques Charrier
She was already pregnant at the wedding; the couple divorced in 1962.
Q 30Who wrote 'Je t'aime... moi non plus' for Bardot in 1967 at her demand for 'the most beautiful love song'?
Serge Gainsbourg
He wrote it and 'Bonnie and Clyde' in a single night; her husband forced the recording to be shelved for nearly two decades.